30 November 2006 - FALC -- Whats in the Name I attended a meeting hosted by KEK Laboratory in Tsukuba, Japan on 19 November of the Funding Agencies for Large Colliders (FALC), previously known as Funding Agencies for the Linear Collider. -- By Barry Barish

9 November 2006 - GDE and WWS meet at Valencia On Tuesday a momentous meeting for the future of the ILC began in Valencia. Under cloudy skies and occasional rain, the ILC family has gathered for one of its tri-annual joint meetings, reviewing progress and the status following the Vancouver meeting last July. -- By Brian Foster

2 November 2006 - Worldwide Peer Reviews for ILC Detector R&D Reaching the science goals for the ILC will require that both the collider performance and the capabilities of the detectors be consistent with the parameters set out by the ILCSC parameters group. For the ILC detectors, this will require improvements in both spatial and energy resolution. -- By Barry Barish

12 October 2006 - Pomp and Circumstance Last week, Sheldon Glashow of Boston University and I made a trip to Italy to receive honorary degrees in physics, Lauree ad Honorem in Fisica, from the University of Bologna. -- By Barry Barish

14 September 2006 - To-Gakkai meets the ILC Science is a great achievement of human endeavour and culture. Yet sometimes people get confused about the distinction between science and foolish ideas. -- By Mitsuaki Nozaki

24 August 2006 - Revisiting the ILC Parameters An innocent looking little document entitled Parameters for the Linear Collider dated 30 September 2003 has to a large extent determined the present baseline design of the ILC. -- By Barry Barish

17 August 2006 - Happy Birthday GDE One year ago, most of the 49 newly appointed members of the Global Design Effort came to Snowmass, Colorado, for the International Linear Collider Workshop where they participated in our first GDE face-to-face meeting. -- By Barry Barish

13 July 2006 - Vancouver Linear Collider Workshop and GDE Meeting The first GDE meeting in the Americas region since the Snowmass 2005 workshop will take place next week on 19-22 July, as a joint meeting with the American Linear Collider Physics Group ALCPG at the University of British Columbia in beautiful Vancouver, Canada. -- By Gerry Dugan

29 June 2006 - Sokendai Linear Collider Accelerator School Not long after I became GDE Director, and even before I had recruited our initial design team, I gave a plenary talk on my ideas and plans for the ILC design effort at the Particle Accelerator Conference PAC05 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. -- By Barry Barish

15 June 2006 - Able was I ere I saw Elba This famous palindrome was purportedly spoken by Napoleon when referring to his first sighting of Elba, the island where the British exiled him in 1814. -- By Barry Barish

8 June 2006 - Future Particle Physics in Asia High energy physics is a field of international collaborative efforts, both historically and today. Many non-Asian scientists from around the world are currently participating in the KEKB and neutrino experiments at KEK. -- By Mitsuaki Nozaki

1 June 2006 - FALC Grapples with its Governance Last week I attended the meeting of the Funding Agencies for the Linear Collider -- FALC -- at the INFN Headquarters in a historic building nestled in the small twisty streets near the Pantheon and Piazza Navona in the heart of beautiful old Rome. -- By Barry Barish

25 May 2006 - Einsteins Telescope One of the most intriguing features of the ILC is its potential to act as a telescope to "explore energies a trillion times that of the accelerator itself, in the ultrahighenergy realm where physicists believe that all of natures forces become one." -- By Barry Barish

18 May 2006 - New Look and New Logo Today we inaugurate a new look for the ILC website, as well as a new logo. We have strived to make our website as functional as possible, while also making it attractive. -- By Barry Barish

11 May 2006 - Baseline Damping Rings One of the more difficult decisions we made last fall was which damping ring option to choose for our baseline. No recommendation came out of the Snowmass Workshop and our damping ring working group continued to study the question through much of the fall. -- By Barry Barish

20 April 2006 - A BIG MAC Report Peer review has become a cornerstone of modern science assessments, scientific journal publishing, funding decisons and academic promotions. -- By Barry Barish

13 April 2006 - Lost in Translation Every Thursday, I get up very early, in order to chair a weekly telecon of our GDE Executive Committee. At the same moment, my colleagues are joining the call in the late afternoon in Europe and near midnight in Japan. -- By Barry Barish

30 March 2006 - Thanks Fumi - Welcome Mitsuaki It is my great pleasure to announce the appointment of Professor Mitsuaki Nozaki of Kobe University of Japan as the new GDE Asian Regional Director, succeeding Professor Fumihiko Takasaki. -- By Barry Barish

23 March 2006 - Integrating the Parts At the GDE meeting in Frascati last December, we approved the ILC Baseline and announced a new organizational structure for developing a Reference Design and Cost. -- By Barry Barish

9 March 2006 - Meeting the President of India One reason for our holding a GDE meeting in India is to provide an opportunity to explore the possibility of Indian participation in both the GDE and ILC R&D program. These discussions will hopefully be a first step toward an eventual full partnership for India on the ILC. -- By Barry Barish

2 March 2006 - Bangalore Preview One year ago, during the opening session of the Linear Collider Work Shop at Stanford University, Jonathan Dorfan on behalf of ICFA read an official letter offering me the position of Director for the yet to be formed Global Design Effort. -- By Barry Barish

23 February 2006 - Energy Upgrade ...Possible upgrade scenarios to 1 TeV were discussed at length during the Snowmass Workshop last summer, but no conclusions or consensus emerged. -- By Barry Barish

9 February 2006 - US Budget News The Presidents 2007 budget request to Congress includes a doubling of the ILC R&D budget from 30M to 60M dollars. This is good news, indeed. -- By Barry Barish

2 February 2006 - RD Board A decade or so ago, the thought of building a TeV scale linear collider was pretty much just a romantic notion. The long extrapolations from present accelerators and from proven technologies were daunting. -- By Barry Barish

26 January 2006 - RDR Kick-off Our major theme for the past six months has been to establish a basic configuration for the International Linear Collider. The GDE process got underway last August at Snowmass and culminated in our approval of a strawman configuration at a meeting in Frascati, Italy in December. -- By Barry Barish

19 January 2006 - InDiCo - Integrated Digital Conferencing One of the biggest challenges for our dispersed GDE effort is communications. This was apparent from the beginning and, as a result, I have continually emphasized the need for us to employ the most advanced electronic communications and web tools. -- By Barry Barish

12 January 2006 - Design Cost Board At Frascati, I created three boards that will become the centerpiece of the GDE organization as we now move forward from having determined the baseline for the ILC towards doing the technical design for a construction project. -- By Barry Barish

5 January 2006 - Happy New Year As this New Year begins, I would like to briefly remark on our progress and status to date, as we begin to undertake a new set of tasks and goals for 2006. -- By Barry Barish